Thomas Elias: Can Legislature Defy Powerful Real Estate and Industry Lobbyists?
San Gabriel Valley Tribune › June 23, 2009
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ANCIENT Egyptians first observed that only when we eliminate traditions do we discover why they became traditions in the first place.
We modern Californians who now appear likely to eliminate scores of government programs may be about to discover the truth of that old saying. The cuts are coming because of a budget deficit estimated to exceed $23 billion over the next two years even with the $16 billion worth of increased sales, income and car taxes approved by state legislators last February.See the full content of this document
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Thomas Elias: Can Legislature Defy Powerful Real Estate and Industry Lobbyists?
Once those programs are gone, we will likely learn why many of them were deemed necessary by voters and legislators of the not so distant past. Not even public employee union contracts will save tens of thousands of workers fro...
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